Martin Browne Contemporary In Ocula Magazine

Australian art fair Sydney Contemporary returns to Carriageworks from 8–11 September. Ocula's Hazel Ellis was on the ground to capture all the art, the energy, and the atmosphere on the fair's opening day.

Sydney Contemporary returns from 8 to 11 September. Giving an early glimpse of their booths are 1301SW, The Commercial, Gallery 9, Martin Browne Contemporary, Neon Parc, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, STATION, THIS IS NO FANTASY, and Yavuz Gallery.

Celebrations include projections on the Sydney Opera House, an Archibald Prize retrospective, and the Sydney Modern Project expansion.

With the physical fair rescheduled for February next year, organisers have partnered with Ocula to offer an alternative online.

In celebration of the centennial of Colin McCahon's birth, Wellington's Adam Art Gallery has organised a touring exhibition of his seminal painting, Gate III.

Staged at Carriageworks, Sydney's striking multi-disciplinary arts precinct, the Fair welcomes over 80 galleries from around the Pacific Rim with strong representation from Australia, New Zealand and Southeast Asia.

The time is ripe to galvanise New Zealand's public to more fully support its visual arts.

Founded in 2007, Art Dubai's sustained focus on showcasing contemporary art has had a tangible impact, resulting in a developing maturity of what was once a young and inexperienced art market.

Once more, Art Dubai reaffirms its position as a leading international art fair and as a platform representing art from the Middle East, North Africa and South Asia.

This year's edition of [Art Dubai][0] (15–18 March 2017)—the most global to date with 94 galleries from 43 countries—was a game changer. At least, that's what it felt like in the Abraaj Group loung

The title for the exhibition was a way to define the introduction of black that replaces my predominant use of white as a background, and the deeper space that black brings with it.

My work attempts to provide a positive engagement with contemporary abstraction by metaphorically carving out a space for the audience to add their own narratives.

Overall, it’s clear to see the fair going from strength to strength.

In literary criticism, the term Bildungsroman refers to a coming of age novel. The protagonist learns a lesson, undergoes a transformation and grows up. They are stories where sentiment conflicts with authority, and we love them because they question our foundations and because we were all kids, once. ‘Emerging’ is the art...

Browne understands the importance of balancing the needs of his artists with that of the collector; and curatorial integrity with commercial reality.